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Please – Stop Confusing My Love For Hate

I’m a Christian. I believe in God and I believe the Bible is the instruction manual for the lives of those who want to be a Christian.

I also believe in “right” and in “wrong” as it is laid out in the Bible.

Just because I believe something someone does is wrong, or that it is a sin, does not mean that I hate that person or that I’m a hateful person in general.

Jesus talks about loving people in Matthew (Chapter 22: 36-39) – 36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’t38 This is the first and greatest commandment.39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

And in John, Chapter 15 verse 12 Jesus says “This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.”

Loving people is important; the most important part of being a Christian according to Jesus, who I consider to be my Lord and Savior. And when people I love are doing something that will hurt them, I love them enough to tell them so.

If you are my friend or a member of my family and you’re standing in the middle of a road and I see a bus heading your way, I am going to tell you so. Why? So that you aren’t hurt or killed. Why? Because it is the loving thing to do.

When I tell people about Jesus, I am loving them.

When I tell someone who is a Christian that they’re committing something the Bible says is a sin, I am loving them.

When people are doing something the Bible says will send them to Hell for eternity and I try my best to spread the Word so that they might be saved, I am loving them.

I am tired of being told I am a “hater” because I believe something is hurting someone and I happen to care enough to say so.

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I am so encouraged by your post today. It is the simplest cry of my heart these days. I have many times used a very similar analogy of the bus about to hit a friend in my life. Thank you for voicing my heartfelt sentiments in such a direct, loving way. God bless you!